{"id":3592,"date":"2019-03-18T14:39:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T18:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/?p=3592"},"modified":"2019-03-18T14:39:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T18:39:45","slug":"spotlight-open-access-task-force-releases-draft-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/2019\/spotlight-open-access-task-force-releases-draft-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight: Open access task force releases draft recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ad Hoc Task Force on Open Access to MIT\u2019s Research has released a set of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open-access.mit.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">draft recommendations<\/a>\u00a0that aim to support and increase the open sharing of\u00a0MIT publications, data, software, and educational materials. They are available for public comment until April 17.<\/p>\n<p>The recommendations include ratifying an Institute-wide set of principles for open science; broadening\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/oapolicy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MIT Faculty Open Access Policy<\/a>\u00a0to cover all MIT authors; adopting an open access (OA) policy for monographs; and asking department heads to develop discipline-specific plans to encourage and support open sharing from their faculty, students, and staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur recommendations are grounded in the view that openness leads to better research,\u201d says\u00a0Chris Bourg, director of the MIT Libraries and co-chair of the OA task force along with Hal Abelson, Class of 1922 Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. \u201cThey are intended to reduce barriers and provide incentives to open sharing, while remaining flexible where needed to accommodate differences across disciplines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Institute-wide OA task force, convened by Provost Martin Schmidt in July 2017,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open-access.mit.edu\/charge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was charged with<\/a>\u00a0exploring how MIT should update and revise MIT\u2019s current OA policies to \u201cfurther the Institute\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.mit.edu\/facts\/mission.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mission<\/a>\u00a0of disseminating the fruits of its research and scholarship as widely as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 18 months, task force members gathered input from experts across campus and beyond to better understand local, national, and global practices and policies related to open access.\u00a0At MIT, the task force hosted\u00a0two community forums and met with the five school councils, the Technology Licensing Office, the Committee on Intellectual Property, the vice president for research, and others. Members also consulted with representatives from Google, the Gates Foundation, Creative Commons, and the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition.<\/p>\n<p>In fall 2018, the task force released \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/open-access.mit.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/20180917_Provost_OpenAccessTF_WhitePaper.pdf\">Open Access at MIT and Beyond:\u00a0A White Paper of the MIT\u00a0Ad Hoc Task Force on Open Access to MIT&#8217;s Research<\/a>,&#8221; which provided a backdrop to the work of preparing the recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>There are several ways for the MIT community to offer feedback on the draft recommendations. Ideas can be submitted via the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/open-access.mit.edu\/idea-bank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">task force idea bank<\/a>,\u00a0on the open publishing platform\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mitoataskforce.pubpub.org\/pub\/draft-recommendations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PubPub<\/a>,\u00a0via\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:openaccesstaskforce@mit.edu\">email to the task force<\/a>, or at an upcoming community forum on April 10, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in Room 56-114.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ad Hoc Task Force on Open Access to MIT\u2019s Research has released a set of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open-access.mit.edu\/\">draft recommendations<\/a>\u00a0that aim to support and increase the open sharing of\u00a0MIT publications, data, software, and educational materials. They are available for public comment until April 17. <\/p>\n<p>There will be a community forum on the recommendations on <b>April 10, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in Room 56-114<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":false,"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3592"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3599,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions\/3599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/scholarly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}